Binder hanger for loose-leaf sheet calendars



Jan. 27, 1953 0. P. WINFORD 2,626,818

BINDER HANGER FOR LOOSE-LEAF SHEET CALENDARS Filed March 26-, 1951 I I"; V

Srwentor ORION P. WINFORD (Zttomeg Patented Jan. 27, 1953 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE BINDER HANGER FOR LOOSE-LEAF SHEET CALENDARS Orion P. Winford, St. Paul, Minn., assignor to Brown & Bigelow, St. Paul, Minn., a corporation of Minnesota 4 Claims. 1

My invention relates to a calendar where it is desirable to hold a series of loose-leaf sheets in a manner to display a part of the sheets below a binder. The sheets held by the binder may carry a pocket on the lower end of the same on which a calendar month is indicated or other illustrations or information may be indicated on the lower portion of the individual sheets.

A further feature is to provide a calendar with loose-leaf sheets held by a binder which extends down over the front of a portion of the individual sheets to cover approximately half of the topmost sheet. The binder holding the sheets may be made out of paper or other suitable similar material, and it is formed with a tongue which extends through a slot formed in the sheets and provides the hanger for supporting the calendar on a nail or hook when it is in use. The supporting tongue of the binder may also be formed with suitable vertical slots so as to provide a means of holding a pencil. The pencil, when in position in the tongue, prevents the tongue of the binder from slipping through the slots in the sheets, and the binder thus acts as a locking means to keep the binder and the sheets held securely together.

A feature resides in providing a calendar formed economically so that loose-leaf sheets may be supported in a simple manner when formed with a horizontal slot extending through the sheets and providing a binder with a supporting tongue and a slot in the front of the binder sheet through which the tongue extends and may be projected upward to act as the support for the loose-leaf calendar sheets.

In this manner I provide a calendar composed of a series of loose-leaf sheets which are supported by a paper binder formed of a single piece of material and which extends over the tops of the loose-leaf sheets to form a means of binding in the upper edges of the loose-leaf sheets to form a finished top over the upper edges of the looseleaf sheets and to provide an efficient means of binding the sheets together so that the calendar can be hung upon the wall with all the sheets held by the binder, and yet when it is desired the individual sheets may be released from the binder so that the front sheet may be placed in the back of the series of sheets to retain the same for future reference, if it is desired.

The binder is adapted to provide a cover for the upper portion of the sheets, and when the binder is used to hold calendar sheets, it is desirable that this cover may support or have printed thereon a picture, preferably in color, to add to the attractiveness of the calendar when it is hung upon the wall. Thus, the cover sheet of the binder supports a picture and also acts to cover the top of the loose-leaf sheets.

In my calendar it is desirable to have a top cover sheet or member because usually the upper part of the calendar sheet is adapted to carry such indicia as cookin recipes, which may be used by the housewife and thus provide a kitchen calendar, or the upper portions of these sheets may carry indicia which is of interest to the farmer or other business interest which may be associated with the days of the year of the calendar, and by means of the pencil the user of the calendar can jot down any information on the tops of these sheets which he wishes to refer to later on, as related to the days of the year or the month. Thus I provide a very convenient and desirable form of calendar which may be referred to as a reference calendar as well as a kitchen calendar or a farm calendar with the above features and advantages inherent to the particular calendar.

A further feature of primary importance of my calendar resides in the economical construction of the same which I have developed by providing a paper binder and display sheet for the top of loose-leaf sheets, which is formed from a single piece of material and which has a broad bearing hanger tongue by which the calendar is supported to hold the sheets in true alignment one above the other.

These features together with the other objects and details will be more fully hereinafter set forth.

In the drawings forming a part of this application:

Figure l is a perspective of my binder hanger for loose-leaf sheet calendar.

Figure 2 illustrates the binder removed from the sheets of the calendar.

Figure 3 illustrates one of the sheets in its died-out form.

Figure 4 is an enlarged detail section showing the binder hanger in the act of being attached to or disengaged from the sheets.

Figure 5 is an enlarged detail section on the line 55 of Figure 1.

The calendar A is composed of a series of looseleaf sheets IE1 which are superimposed one upon the other and which may be in the form illustrated in Figure 3 when out from a single piece of paper.

The sheets Ii] may be formed at their lower free end with a pocket ll so that articles may 3 be inserted in the pocket II through the top opening I2, if desired for future reference.

In forming the sheets I0, the lower free end of the sheet is adapted to extend and be folded on the transverse line I3 while flaps I 4 are formed on each side so that when the portion I5 is folded up on the line I3 and the flaps I4 are folded on the vertical lines l6 and glued to the back of the sheet ID, the pocket II is formed.

Each sheet I 0 is formed with a long horizontal slot or opening I! with rounded ends I8 to add strength to the slots I! at the ends to permit the sheets to be engaged through the slots I1 and supported in a group of sheets one upon the other.

I provide a sheet binder and hanger member B formed from a single piece of paper or similar material which is died-out in the form illustrated in Figure 2 with a projecting hanger tongue I9. Transversely extending score lines 29 are formed in the binder sheet 2| to permit the same to be folded along the lines 29. Score lines 22 are formed transversely through the hanger tongue l9 to permit the same to be folded on the lines 22. A transverse slot or opening 23 is formed in the sheet 2!, which also has rounded ends 24 to strengthen the ends of the slot against wear.

The binder hanger B is adapted to support the loose-leaf sheets I9 by passing the hanger tongue I9 through the slots [1 of the sheets and then forwardly through the slot 23 pulling the hanger tongue I9 up into the position illustrated in Figures 1 and 5. This operation engages all the sheets I 0 and holds them by the binder hanger B in compact form so that the hanger may be used to hang the calendar A on the wall, as illustrated in Figure 1.

It will be apparent that the binder hanger B provides a finished top edge along the fold lines while the front sheet 2| of the binder and the back flange 25 bind'the top edges of the sheets I!) closely together and in a finished form.

The slots [1 and 23 are virtually the same length and long enough to form a wide bearing for supporting the sheets I9. The width of the tongue I9 at the point where it extends through the slots I! and 23 is slightly less than the length of the slots I! and 23, and thus the tongue I9 may be readily threaded through the openings I! in the sheets and through the opening 23 in the front sheet 2|.

The tongue I9 is formed with a pair of vertically disposed slots or openings 26 through which the pencil 2'! may be threaded, as illustrated in Figures 1 and 5. The pencil 2'! acts' as a key to lock the binder hanger B to the sheets Ill. The pencil also serves as an instrument for writing any indicia on the upper surface 28 of the sheets I 9. The upper surface 28 and the sheets I0 may be lined and marked in a manner to correspond with the dates appearing on the calendar sheet so that indicia may be indicated on the sheet I0 to correspond with complemental calendar dates.

The front of the pocket II may have printed thereon indicia 29 to indicate the days of the month and to show a complete month on the front of the pocket. When the sheets ID are formed without the pocket II, the calendar may be printed on the lower end of the same-or any other indicia may appear thereon. However, when the sheets are adapted to be used as calendar sheets, then the calendar month should appear thereon whether they carry a pocket .on the lower end or not. i

A feature of my binder hanger resides in providing an economical means of supporting the free or loose sheets It] so that the sheets may be removed from the binder hanger whenever desired by removing the pencil 21 and unthreading the tongue I9 out of the slots N. Then any of the sheets I0 may be placed back of the front sheets or the back sheets may be brought to the front, as may be desired. In a calendar of this character, which is desirable as a loose-leaf sheet calendar, it is usually desirable by the user of the calendar to save each of the calendarsheets by placing them back of each other after the month appearing on the front of the sheet has gone by. Then the user of this calendar A may have an opportunity to refer to any of the sheets of the calendar at any time. Some of the outstanding fields in which this calendar is used are termed kitchen calendars, farm calendars, machinery calendars, and so forth, all of which are more or less reference calendars so that information may be kept referring to the different days of the year and months thereof, which information usually is noted on the top portion 28 of the sheets I0.

It is also desirable to provide the front cover sheet 2I of the binder B as a means of supporting a picture 30, which may be attached to the front sheet in any simple manner or the picture 39 may be printed or lithographed or otherwise placed on the front sheet 2| of the binder hanger B.

The back surface of the sheets IG may also be used for indicia (not illustrated in the drawings of any character suitable to the particular general form of the calendar.

It will, therefore, be apparent that I have provided a very economical binder hanger for looseleaf calendar which is adapted to support the sheets in true alignment with each other to form a neat appearance when the calendar hangs on the wall and to permit the sheets to be held by a supporting tongue having a long bearing surface contacting with the sheets through the slots I'I formed therein and to form a pencil receiving means in the hanger tongue which may act as a movable means for providing a lock to hold the binder hanger against disengagement with the sheets Ill. However, it will also be apparent that when the sheets are supported by the hanger tongue I9 the upper end of the binder B wraps around the top edges of the sheets III in close proximity to the sheets and the sheets cannot be disengaged therefrom until the binder tongue is rlilisengaged from the supporting hanger on the wa The binder hanger may be readily removed from the sheets, as illustrated in Figure 4, to permit the loose-leaf sheets to be quickly changed in position in the binder or to attach the binder to the sheets.

I claim:

1. A calendar having a series of loose-leaf sheets, long transverse slots formed in said sheets near the top thereof, and a binder hanger means having a front sheet adapted to support said sheets one above the other and in alignment each with the other, a horizontal slot formed through said front sheet of said binder said -b1nder hanger means including a hanger tongue extending from said front sheet and formed as a part of said binder adapted to be threaded through said opening in said sheets and through said opening of said front sheet of said binder and to extend beyond the top edge of said binder to provide a hanger for supporting said front sheet over said loose-leaf sheets in a loose-leaf manner.

2. A binder hanger for a series of loose-leaf sheets including a single sheet of paper providing a front display sheet and died out to provide a projecting hanger tongue from one edge thereof, said front sheet having a transverse slot formed thereon below said tongue, a series of sheets each having complemental slots formed therein and having fold lines extending horizontally formed along said binder adapted to cause the upper edge of said binder to be folded and wrapped around the upper edge of the loose-leaf sheets with said tongue of said binder passing through said slots in said sheets and out of the slot in said binder and extending upwardly to form a hanger which binds the loose-leaf sheets together when in hanging position with said front sheet depending over said sheets and on which display material may be mounted.

3. A binder hanger for loose-leaf calendar including a single member in the form of a front sheet adapted to receive a picture and illustration on the face thereof, the upper portion of said front sheet having a transverse slot formed therein, a hanger tongue projecting and integrally formed with said front sheet extending from the top thereof having an opening in the free end to provide means for attaching the hanger to the wall, a series of loose-leaf sheets of the calendar adapted to receive indicia and each having complemental slots formed in the upper edges thereof through which said tongue is adapted to extend and project to form hanger means for the sheets and position said front sheet over said sheets with said tongue exposed on said front sheet and slot means formed in said tongue for attaching a writing instrument thereto.

4. In a loose-leaf calendar display, a front display sheet portion, a series of loose-leaf sheets each having an opening formed therein, a binder portion extending from said front sheet, said front sheet portion having an opening formed therein, a tongue member extending from said binder portion and adapted to be inserted through said slots of said sheets and said slot of said front sheet and folded upwardly against the front surface of said front sheet to bind said sheets together and provide a hanger for said sheets and said front sheet on which pictures and the like may be mounted.

ORION P. WINFORD.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,798,586 Burgess Mar. 31, 1931 2,068,214 Winford Jan. 19, 1937 

